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Blog Post Assignment 6

1. Do parents ever pressure their children to achieve? Why do you think so?
Answer: Yes, parents want their children to be the best of their abilities, and want them to be better than they were.

2. What are some conflicts that parents and children have?
Answer: Parents and children often have different views on things, mainly due to the fact that children yet to understand everything in life.

3. Do you feel that people can be anything they want to be?
Answer: A person can certainly be anything they want to be with the power of hard work and positivity.

4. Do all conflicts have a winner?
Answer: All conflicts have a winner until the two have to compromise. By them compromising, no one wins because the decision made was not what either of them wanted originally.

5. Compare your relationship with your parents to Chinese children's relationship with their parents in China.
Answer: The relationship I have with my mother in comparison to the Chinese differ and has similarities. Like the Chinese, my mother has high expectations for me and pushes me to always work to my potential. Our relationship differs from the Chinese because my mother does not stress me with things I do not want to do nor does she force me unless she knows I will be successful in the end.

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